Israeli military shoots teenager near Bethlehem
The Wafa news agency, quoting local security sources, reports that Israeli forces wounded the 16-year-old Palestinian during a raid in the occupied West Bank town of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, on Friday night.
Israeli forces fired live bullets, tear gas and sound bombs as they stormed the town, wounding the teenager in the pelvis, according to Wafa. The severity of his condition is not currently known.
Israeli forces erect metal gates cutting off Jenin refugee camp
Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank have installed metal gates cutting off the Jenin refugee camp from the rest of the city. The Israeli military and Palestinian Authority security forces have been conducting intensive raids in the camp, which was once a hotbed of Palestinian resistance, for months.
Israeli soldiers ‘hid’ among olive trees, shot Palestinian teenager ‘in cold blood’
Rights group Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI-P) has deplored the killing of a 16-year-old boy shot dead by Israeli forces while closing up the shop where he worked east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
The killing occurred when Israeli troops travelling in two military vehicles deployed in the occupied West Bank’s town of Salem on Thursday afternoon. Noticing the military presence, the victim, Abdulkhaleq Mosab Abdulkhaleq Jabour, decided to close up the small shop where he worked.
Moments later, he was shot in the chest while closing up and died of his injuries, DCI-P said, adding the Israeli troops who shot the teenager had “hid among some olive trees” close to the shop and had also impeded relatives from providing first aid.
“Abdulkhaleq was clearly no threat to Israeli soldiers, and yet they fatally shot him anyway, and as usual, no one will be held accountable for killing a Palestinian child in cold blood,” the organisation’s Ayed Abu Eqtaish said in a statement.
Israeli soldiers have now killed 24 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank so far this year, the children’s rights group said.
Israeli forces shot and killed 16-year-old Abdulkhaleq Jabour today, south of Nablus, while he was closing up the shop where he worked during an Israeli military incursion.
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— Defense for Children (@DCIPalestine) April 25, 2025
